Adrian Lester

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494 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 7 Jul

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Rosebud with Gyles Brandreth · More Rosebud - Adrian Lester · 7 Jul 2026 podcast

And I thought, oh, right.

Okay.

And, you know, we kids, we occupied ourselves for a bit and then parents came and picked us up and we went home.

I felt very at home, a bit of a chameleon really, I felt very at home in the choir and very at home at home.

And by then we'd moved and were living in a council flat just off the Bristol Road, very close to St Catherine's School where I'd gone.

And I felt very at home in both places.

But I also spent, it was either choir or I spent my time at the Midlands Arts Centre.

And what happened there?

What was your life there?

Well, I joined, a friend at choir said, you should join the children's opera company at the Midlands Arts Centre.

So I went along and I sang for them and I got in.

It's great these opportunities were available, isn't it?

Well, this is my whole thing.

I'm a kid and I can't afford to pay for all of this stuff.

I'm not from the nominal culture where this stuff is appreciated.

And I've luckily found that people have come, opened the doors and said, come in.

So there I am in Birmingham and I'm going to the Midlands Arts Centre.

I joined the opera company and I remember doing, it was a new piece written by Richard Blackford called Dragon Tales of Granny Chang.

And the idea being that we were a group of kids that were in a village.

And when the adults went out to work, we entertained ourselves with stories.

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